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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nouncontrarian claim
kayak
An English borrowing recorded in 1757 from Inuit qayaq, the name of the Indigenous Arctic watercraft; the reviewed English source does not identify one specific Inuit language variety.
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moose
English moose, recorded by 1603, is of Algonquian origin. Related Massachusett and Eastern Abenaki forms are secure, but the reviewed evidence does not uniquely identify one direct donor variety.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Quechua source (variety unspecified) / Quechuan
llama
llama; Lama glama
- DATE
- Quechua historical and modern record
- MATCH
- language
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Eastern Algonquian source (variety unresolved) / Algic
mos / moos
moose
- DATE
- Eastern Algonquian source; variety unresolved
- MATCH
- language
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Inuit source (variety unspecified) / Eskimo-Aleut
qayaq
kayak; traditional narrow skin-covered watercraft
- DATE
- Inuit source form; variety unspecified
- MATCH
- language
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Beyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No unique donor variety or deeper reconstruction is promoted.
- DATE
- before the unresolved Eastern Algonquian donor
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 4
openprobableposition text
Was Portuguese chá borrowed specifically from Cantonese or from Mandarin?
WALS gives a Cantonese cha route through Macao; Infopédia labels the source Mandarin chá. The shared cha-type Chinese family is secure, but the immediate variety label is not unanimous.
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Can the English donor be narrowed to one Inuit language?
Not from the reviewed English etymology. It gives only Inuit qayaq. Official Greenlandic qajaq evidence proves a related living form, not that Greenlandic was uniquely the immediate donor.
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Which Eastern Algonquian language directly supplied moose?
The family source is secure, but related Massachusett moos and Eastern Abenaki mos do not by themselves identify one unique direct donor.
openprobableposition text
Was Greenlandic qajaq the unique direct donor of English kayak?
The reviewed English etymology says only Inuit qayaq. Greenlandic qajaq proves a living related form, but not one uniquely identified borrowing event.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 200GRADE A-ranked reveal
The recreation word is a retained Indigenous Arctic boat name.
English kayak comes from Inuit qayaq. The broad source label is real evidence; assigning one exact Inuit donor variety would go beyond it.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “variety.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “variety.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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